Our acute mental health service is suitable for males and females over the age of 18. We offer personalised treatment programmes to treat a broad range of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, stress and PTSD, and we use psychiatric interventions including pharmaceutical, diversional and recovery-focused tools.

We have two acute mental health wards at Cheadle Royal:

• Alder – 14-bedded mixed ward
• Maple – 15-bedded mixed ward

Our PICUs at Cheadle Royal provide a model of care that has been specifically designed to meet the needs of individuals suffering from an acute phase of severe mental illness, which cannot be managed in an open setting. The patients that are admitted to our PICUs have typically exceeded, exhausted or failed to benefit from local resources and require a safe and secure environment to engage in a therapeutic programme. Our skilled, multidisciplinary PICU teams have many years' experience in safely managing complex patients in an acute phase of mental illness, who often demonstrate challenging behaviours.

We have two male PICUs at Cheadle Royal and one female PICU:

• Featherstone – 10-bedded male PICU
• Willows – 10-bedded male PICU
• Pankhurst – 10-bedded female PICU

Patients that are referred must meet the following criteria:

• Aged 18 or over
• Detained under the Mental Health Act
• Presenting with a severe mood disorder/acute psychosis, and often self-harming behaviour
• Presenting significant and continued risk to themselves or others, both on the ward and in the community, as well as a risk of absconding
• Admitted from emergency departments, other PICUs, the criminal justice system, community settings and other mental health settings

We are able to take PICU referrals and provide a response within one hour. Our services have the ability to respond and admit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can contact our 24/7 referral line on 0800 090 1356.

To speak to a member of the team about our PICU services more generally, you can contact the services directly:

• Featherstone male PICU – 0161 495 4907
• Willows male PICU - 0161 495 5185
• Pankhurst female PICU – 0161 495 4926

Read more about our PICU services at Cheadle Royal by downloading our dedicated PICU brochure.

The dedicated CAMHS offering at Cheadle Royal provides a comprehensive inpatient specialist mental health service for young people aged from 12 up to 18 years. 

We can treat children with a broad range of presentations such as early onset psychosis or emergent personality disorder, and treatment is provided via a high dependency ward, a PICU, and a low secure unit.

Visit our dedicated Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal CAMHS page to learn more.

Rehabilitation and recovery at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal offers a comprehensive specialist service, designed to treat males over the age of 18, with primary diagnoses of severe and enduring mental illnesses, and complex mental health needs.

We can accommodate 17 patients across the ward, which is located in two adjacent buildings:

• Elmswood House – 11-bedded male locked unit, offering a more acute level of service with a higher level of support and observation
• Elmswood View – 6-bedded male open unit, providing support in a less restrictive open facility

Whilst patients can be admitted into either unit depending on the complexity of their individual needs and presentation, a specialist step-down care pathway is also offered between the units, as the patient progress in their rehabilitation.

This service at Cheadle Royal is suitable for males over the age of 18 that have:

• Primary diagnosis of a severe and enduring mental health condition
• Physical health condition in addition to their mental illness, that requires monitoring and treatment
• Co-morbid presentation e.g. mild to moderate learning disability, addiction, depression, or anxiety
• Difficulties in other areas e.g. challenging behaviours, personal care and living skills, vulnerable to exploitation
• Forensic history, informal or detained patients, including forensic sections
• Require a safe, supported, structured and low stimulus environment before a community or supported placement

Read more about our rehabilitation and recovery services at Cheadle Royal by downloading our dedicated rehabilitation and recovery brochure.

Our female service is located a short distance away at Priory Hospital Romiley. Read more by downloading our Priory Hospital Romiley brochure.

Cheadle’s adult eating disorder service is a specialist service that provides comprehensive inpatient treatment for severe eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder (BED) and other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED), which may also be known as 'eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS)'. Our eating disorders unit, Russell House, is a 16-bedded mixed ward and an 11-bedded mixed ward. The highly experienced multidisciplinary team at Cheadle provides bespoke treatment to suit individual needs.

Our tailored approach includes:

• Community-based, therapy-orientated setting
• Weekly physical health monitoring including weight and blood tests
• Progress monitoring through CPA procedures
• Co-ordination of care with GPs, carers, commissioners, etc.
• A multidisciplinary assessment of needs
• Regular updates to commissioners and weekly reviews in key worker sessions
• Medical supervision
• Nasogastric feeding if required
• A comprehensive risk assessment to establish the best possible care plan

Our inpatient eating disorder service is suitable for:

• Males and females over the age of 18
• Those diagnosed with a severe eating disorder

We are also able to provide eating disorder day care treatment at Cheadle Royal, which consists of patients attending Russell House for a set number of days each week, and participating in eating disorder therapy and treatment. Day care eating disorder treatment is suitable for:

• Males and females over the age of 18
• Those diagnosed with an eating disorder
• Those requiring continued care following an inpatient stay
• Those who may require an alternative to inpatient care but require more intensive input than outpatient care

Read more about our day care treatment for eating disorders by downloading our eating disorders day care brochure.

“There is always something to do and it’s homely here. There is a good cohort of staff here, even the bank and agency [staff] are regular so that you can build up trust with them.

They’ve set up a system so that they check on each of us after an incident, which helps so much and was in response to our feedback. It’s really about patient-led recovery here and very individualised treatment.”

It’s the best ward I’ve been on in terms of patient involvement, the key nurses are really good at one-to-ones and there is always someone to talk to.” Former patient on Cedar Ward

The Fern Unit at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal is a 10-bedded specialist service dedicated to supporting females with personality disorder to acquire the skills to effectively manage their own emotions, be interpersonally effective and tolerate distress.

Our aim is to help patients to live a happier, more independent life. Set within more than 30 acres of landscaped grounds, patients will enjoy a calm and spacious environment.

The treatment model on Fern Unit combines traditional psychiatry with dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). This targets specific areas that people with personality disorders experience difficulties with, which include:

• The ability to correctly identify, label and regulate their current emotion
• Tolerating distress
• Managing crisis events
• Being more effective in interpersonal relationships

The programme is delivered via the following structures and therapy types:

• Behavioural support pathway
• Skills groups
• Individual therapy
• Team consultations
• 1-1 coaching

For more information on our personality disorder ward, please click here to read our service brochure.